San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-17
FRESH MAGNOLIA BALM.
Editor LIOHT:
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. lG.

Another Sampson has come, with his
''iaw bone," to pAlliate the crime OF
spectator in the Austin Dispatch, writ
ten on those Infamous Dutch Of San
Antonio.
Ifthis writer, "IvanhOe," were only
counterpart OF his namesake In Sir
Walter Scott's novel OF that name, what
hero he would be, but alas! while taxi
Ing up the clubs for those misused ladies
on election day, he coyertly gives me a
thrust as a "beer guzzler." 1 never
drink beer In any garden, except Scholz,
and | supposed it was highly respectable
or would not go there. As TO the
quantity | guzzls," the walters can
vouch for that. While sitting in
that garden, some OF the fairest
and most elegant ladies have driven up
In their carriages and ordered beer. l
noticed those fair Americans could de-
molish beer about as we'll as their
Dutch" sisters. | want to tell lyanhoe
that belonged to the first temperance
lodge ever organized in Wsterville, KS.
and 1 have the papers to prove 1t; and
furthermore, 1 never drank one-half
dozen glasses OF beer In my life till |
came to this city, three years ago: but |
really believe now that moderate use
OF good fresh beer Is beautiful and bene-
fioial In this climate.
Now, about the tobacco smoke" Of
those Infamous Dutch" must say that
q woman's aversion to smoke depends
very much on who is the smoker.
have noticed fair young girls
seated beside dude" while he
smoked his three cent cigar in
their faces; you see circumstances alter
cases. If a woman is foolish enough to
love confirmed drunksrd and support
him at the expense OF her health and
life, all right. know never would be
that woman; there Ia no doubt that
there are some fine women in our city
today supporting worthless husbands,
but 1t Ia social laws and regard for
their family that keep them with those
excuses for men, but no woman loves a
man when she ceases to respect him, al
though circumstances may combine to
keep her his wife. There is no man
In this age who INDUCES more in wine
or strong drink than the men OF Bible
times; who could be more immoral than
Solomon? What Mormon OF today sports
five hundred wives and six hun
dred concubines? What man could
act more treaoherously than David?
when he put Ursh in the front Of battle
80 as to slay him, and get his wife he
coveted. My belief is that the men OF
today are an improvement on those old
ancestors, although we are told In the
Bible that they were meA after Gods
own heart. They may have suited their
day and generation, but they'd hardly
pass muster In the progressive light Of
the present century. There is hardly
doctrine preached but what can find its
foundation in the Bible; but, as grow
older, / believe more and more in the
doctrine OF predestlnatiOn, and as | look
back over my life, since the ante bellum
days, | am firmer believer than ever
in the prenatal disposition of our
lives. We are sent here to fill our
niche in this world, God alone
guiding and knowing what our destiny
and end may be. But this talk ia wan
| dering from the subject in hand-thOse
| 'infamous Dutch" who irritated "Spec-
| tator" so much. My advice to "Speota-
tor" is to keep SHADY" for there would
not be grease spot OF him left after
those damn Dutch" got through with
him. do not even know who those la
dies were at the polls on election day,
| so certainly am not actuated by any
| i'll feeling toward them. | only feel
sorry that, as women, they left them
| selves in position to be insulted. There
are few men who keep level head on
| election day, and, as for myself, It
would be the last place on earth that
would seek. do hope the peace-mak-
| ing proclivities OF "Ivanhoe" will
| pour oil upon the troubled waters of the
Dutch heart, but | very much doubt II
| any apologies Spectator might make
would ever wash away the remembrance
| of his scathing words from the German
minds Of this city. Perhaps If Captain
Jake Marshall would give US good
soaking rain 1t might cool down these
"beer guZzlers," but while the mercury
keeps climbing 1t is very likely to re-
| remain at fever heat. What a pet
Ivsnhoe will be among the ladies; how
they will pray for him that he may see
the error of his ways and be an anti, no
| longer as he claims to be, he had better
be careful and share the fate of the old
man and his donkey and between the
prohibs and ants fall into the sweet
| (smelling) San Antonio river.
MAGNOLIA.